MEMO TO FRED DEMECH(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001900160061-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 61
• Content Type: MEMO

 Approved For Release 2007/05/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001900160061-2
SIGNIFICANT LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY SINCE 1977
95th Congress - 1977 - 1978
--Creation of House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. On 14 July 1977 the House passed H. Res. 658,
which created the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was established
in May 1976.
--Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1979
(P.L. 95-370). This was the first authorization bill passed
for intelligence activities.
--Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1977
(P.L. 95-511). This Act authorized applications for a court
order approving the use of electronic surveillance to obtain
foreign intelligence information in the United States. The
United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, con-
sisting of seven district court judges, was established in
May 1979 to handle warrant applications. Implementation of
this Act has produced major legal, procedural and security
benefits to the U.S. foreign intelligence and counterintel-
ligence efforts.
--Federal Physicians Comparability. Allowance Act of 1978
(P.L. 95-603). Agency physicians were included under this
Act, which provides for allowances to be paid to recruit and
retain highly qualified government physicians.
96th Congress - 1979 - 1980
--Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1980
(P.L. 96-100). This was the second such measure passed
authorizing funds for U.S. intelligence operations for fiscal
year 1980. This Act also contains a provision to allow
certain educational travel for dependents of CIA employees
serving overseas.
--Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1981
(P.L. 96-450). After omnibus intelligence charter legislation
became bogged down in committee, Congress did enact new
oversight provisions as part of this Act. The Hughes-Ryan
Amendment passed in 1974 which required the Executive Branch
to notify up to eight committees of proposed covert operations
was modified. This modification, in combination with the
oversight language enacted as section 501 of the National
Security Act of 1947, reduced the number to the two
Intelligence Committees in the House and Senate. Another